Posts by Margot Slade:
For New York City condo and co-op owners, relief from double- and even triple-digit increases in property-value assessments may be a matter of class: A pair of state senators said last week that they are crafting legislation to move condos and co-ops from Class 2 properties, where they're lumped with rentals, to Class 1, where they’ll be treated like single-family homes, which have a 6 percent annual cap on assessment increases.
Outerborough dwellers who've been thwarted in an attempt to return home from Manhattan via yellow cab may want to pay attention to learnings of their Brooklyn neighbors.
"Philosopher of all things" isn't part of the job description for the rental building superintendants we know. But LES Casting begs to differ, and is looking for a NYC-area super to build an entire cable tv reality series around.
The ideal candidate:
As if the road to romance wasn’t hazardous enough, Cornell University entomologist and renowned bed bug expert Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann recently told Marie Claire magazine recently that dating basically doubles the odds of infestation. Preventive measures include:
Slumlords can breathe easy this week, as the Village Voice turns its investigatory eye on tenants for a change. Amid the fraud and fakery in today's 10 worst tenants list is the “Serial Evictee,” who never met a luxe apartment she didn’t like and couldn’t convince someone else to pay for, and the “Anti-Tenant Tenants’ Association,” run by a mother-daughter duo who embezzled $30k in rent money belonging to their low- to middle-income neighbors.
